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A Cassandra Cry Against Pope Francis

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Ross Douthat's views on the pope are intensely unpopular. But has he identified a fundamental tension in the Church?

EMMA GREEN
APR 22, 2018
POLITICS


Across every continent, in every country, Catholics “find themselves divided against one another,” writes the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in his new book, To Change the Church. On one side stand the orthodox, who see doctrine and tradition as the best antidote to a changing world. On the other stand the liberals, who yearn for a Church that focuses on pastoring rather than enforcing rigid rules. This “widening theological and moral gulf,” Douthat argues, is potentially “wider than the chasm that separated Catholicism from Orthodoxy, and later from Lutheranism and Calvinism.”

That’s a bold claim to make. After all, the schisms of East and West, Catholic and Protestant, were world-shaking, often bloody events. But in today’s Church—and specifically in this pope—Douthat sees the possibility that the Roman Catholic Church will once again break apart.

Ostensibly, his beef is with Pope Francis, whom Douthat paints as an unyielding and stubborn manager who has spent his five years in Rome failing to clean up the Vatican’s messes, hurling insults at conservative clerics, and pushing radical doctrinal changes without buy-in from major wings of the Catholic hierarchy. He writes skeptically about Francis’s imagery and rhetoric of mercy, from pictures of the pontiff kissing a man covered in boils to his controversial declaration, “Who am I to judge?” about gay men searching for God. But at its core, Douthat’s book is about a vast, premodern institution’s halting evolution into modern times, and whether it can sufficiently adapt to maintain unified influence over 1.3 billion adherents spanning Africa to Asia to the Americas. “This is a hinge moment in the history of Catholicism,” Douthat writes. While he is unlikely to change many minds about controversial Catholic issues or reshape people’s opinions of the pope, Douthat is digging at a question present in every aspect of contemporary culture and politics: How can those who primarily wish to preserve their culture live in community with those who cheer for inexorable change?

Global Jesuit leader says women's inclusion in church structures 'has not yet arrived'

Kerry Alys Robinson, left, and Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell speak during the Voices of Faith gathering March 8 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press Photo)

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The new leader of the global Jesuit order has said the Catholic church should recognize that women are still not allowed to have a full participatory role in the church's structures.

Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, a Venezuelan who was elected the superior general of the Society of Jesus in October, said March 8 that while Pope Francis has acknowledged that women play a "fundamental role" in passing on the faith they are not yet fully included in church governance.

"Pope Francis has been quite outspoken about women making decisions and holding responsibility in the church," said Sosa, speaking at the annual Voices of Faith event for International Women's Day at the Vatican's Casina Pio IV.

"He has also created a study commission on the women's diaconate to explore the history and role of women in this church structure," Sosa continued. "But if we are honest, we acknowledge that the fullness of women's participation in the church has not yet arrived."

"That inclusion … remains stymied in many forms," said the priest, calling for a new type of ecclesiology — or theology of the structures of the church — that "should push the church to become the People of God as we proclaimed [in] the Second Vatican Council."

Parliament divided over Sunday voting

Friday 23 May 2014

Parliament gave a divided reaction on Friday to comments by home affairs minister Ronald Plasterk that European elections should be held on Sunday in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands has been stopped by Brussels from publishing the official results of Thursday's European parliament elections ahead of Sunday's vote in most of the rest of the EU.

Plasterk says that moving EU elections to Sunday could increase turnout, although he is careful to point out that there must be a solution for people who want to respect the Sunday rest.
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Coalition partner the right-wing Liberal VVD thinks it is 'an interesting thought' because most EU countries vote on Sunday, the Nos reports.

However, the party's MP Joost Taverne said an alternative would have to be found for people who do not want to vote on Sunday on principle. They could vote by mail or a polling station could be opened on a week day for them.

The Socialists agreed with him, but took issue with the timing of Plasterk's comments. 'We've just been criticised by Brussels for our election day which really has nothing to do with the European Commission,' one of its MPs said.

Nor do the Socialist think moving election day would increase turnout.

Both the small Christian parties - SGP and ChristenUnie - are critical of the idea. 'People who do not vote on Thursday are unlikely to do so on Sunday,' the Nos quotes SGP party leader Kees van der Staaij as saying.

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Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?

49I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Luke 12:49-53 (King James Version)